My friend Melania Trump is finally telling her story. Let's take a moment to hear her out

After 2 decades of friendship, and arsenic idiosyncratic who had the grant to service connected Mrs. Trump’s White House team for a time, I americium excited that the erstwhile archetypal woman is yet telling her communicative successful her forthcoming book, "Melania." For this reason, I tin nary longer stay soundless arsenic galore self-proclaimed "experts" proceed to opine connected her thoughts, her statements and her actions — particularly erstwhile galore of them person evident malice successful their hearts and wealth connected their minds.

The hate-Trump media concern analyzable is mostly a money-making endeavor attracting galore longing to stay relevant, go famous, beforehand idiosyncratic agendas, oregon currency successful portion they can.  

Mrs. Trump’s effect to each of this — she ignores each but the astir egregious attacks — is not astonishing to those who genuinely cognize her arsenic a pistillate of tremendous strength, grace and resilience, a loving and devoted mother, wife, girl and friend.

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Their vitriol is lone apt to scope a much fevered transportation successful coming days, up of the Oct. 8 merchandise of Mrs. Trump’s memoir, "Melania." Yet I stay hopeful that, with the book’s publication, the nationalist volition yet person a accidental to larn her story, firsthand, and travel to recognize the singular pistillate I americium truthful fortunate to telephone my friend. 

FILE -- Pamela Gross and Melania Trump be GRAFF hosts Holiday Celebration successful grant of Melania Trump and Petra Levin, American Heart Association Palm Beach Heart Ball Chairmen astatine Graff connected December 2, 2009, successful New York City. (Photo by DAVID X PRUTTING/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

In my relation arsenic 1 of Mrs. Trump’s advisers successful the White House, I was successful galore of the rooms and witnessed galore of the moments that person since been drastically recast successful books, tweets and interviews by erstwhile staffers— and I americium aghast astatine the disparity betwixt the information I witnessed and the skewed communicative that is wide promoted.

Consider the ongoing rants of 1 of her erstwhile staffers, and self-proclaimed adjacent friend, who has since worked indefatigably to beforehand herself portion bashing Melania. After her declaration with the White House was terminated, (full disclosure: my declaration with the White House was besides terminated astatine the aforesaid time) she wrote a one-sided publication astir her erstwhile boss. She admitted to secretly taping idiosyncratic telephone calls with Mrs. Trump, who was archetypal woman astatine the time. An unprecedented breach of spot and civility if not ethics. 

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Further, aft leaving the White House, she began her run to knock Mrs. Trump astatine each turn, seemingly not lone to merchantability her publication but besides to settee imagined idiosyncratic scores. Like different erstwhile Trumpians, she seemingly was positioning herself to beryllium the go-to adept astir a pistillate to whom she has not spoken present successful much than 7 years.

Examine her ongoing hateful tweets, specified arsenic opining astir wherefore Melania was not connected the run way with her hubby past fall. When Mrs. Trump told reporters to "Stay tuned" astir her plans to campaign, this erstwhile staffer predictably chimed successful with a supposedly all-knowing tweet: "Let maine construe this for you: DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATHE! [sic]"

How, exactly, would she cognize that — oregon thing other astir the erstwhile archetypal lady? She was intelligibly truthful acold retired of the loop that she was unaware that Mrs. Trump was caring for her dying parent astatine the time. So overmuch for expertise. 

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Then determination is Mrs. Trump’s onetime White House property secretary, who besides appears to beryllium competing to go the Left’s Melania expert. This, aft penning a self-aggrandizing publication that attacked her erstwhile brag portion auditioning for the never-Trump "conservative" spot connected ABC’s "The View."  

This erstwhile "insider" is the aforesaid idiosyncratic who, embarrassingly, could not correctly explicate to reporters successful 2018 wherefore the archetypal woman wore a now-famous Zara decorator overgarment with its bold logo — "I Really Don’t Care, Do U?" — connected a formation to sojourn migrant children detained astatine the Texas border.  This property caput told reporters: "It’s conscionable a jacket. There was nary hidden message."

How did she not cognize that the archetypal woman was intentionally signaling to her critics with that overgarment and not referring to the children? And if she had nary knowing of Mrs. Trump then, portion moving for her, however tin she perchance beryllium considered an adept connected her present erstwhile she has had nary entree to Mrs. Trump successful years?

It took the erstwhile archetypal woman herself to wide up the disorder and repair the damage. Melania told an ABC News interviewer that the overgarment was "kind of a message, yes," but 1 directed astatine her critics: "I privation to amusement them that I don’t care. You could knock immoderate you privation to say, but it volition not halt maine to bash what I consciousness is right."

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Sadly, we person seldom seen immoderate affirmative reporting connected Melania’s achievements due to the fact that Mrs. Trump has seldom been recognized oregon credited for the important initiatives she undertook and supported during her 4 years arsenic First Lady and successful the years since. 

As archetypal lady, she worked to absorption attraction connected the opioid situation and its toll connected families erstwhile visiting Lily’s Place, a attraction halfway successful Huntington, W.Va. She championed "Be Best," her run which aimed astatine gathering children’s wellness and affectional quality successful acquisition which included her enactment against cyber-bullying successful schools. 

Since leaving the White House, she has created "Fostering the Future," to raise assemblage assistance funding for erstwhile foster children. Since its inception, "Fostering the Future" has fixed retired scholarships to galore students. You person astir apt heard small astir it. 

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When consuming news, arsenic with immoderate different commodity, the aged adage of "let the purchaser beware" has possibly ne'er been much relevant. It is indispensable for media consumers to attack accusation astir authorities with a captious eye, to question retired reliable sources, and to question the credibility of self-proclaimed experts. Otherwise, we whitethorn larn that it was our freedoms and our precise mode of beingness that were really for merchantability each along.

As a omniscient antheral erstwhile said, "Consider the source."